NAME¶

tolua++5.1 - lua language binding development helper program

SYNOPSIS¶

tolua++5.1 [ options ] input_file

DESCRIPTION¶

tolua++5.1 is a program to help in building applications using the tolua++5.1 library for the Lua scripting language.

OPTIONS¶

Command line options are:

-v

Print version information.

-o file

Set output file; default is stdout.

-H file

Create include file.

-n name

Set package name; default is input file root name.

-p

Parse only.

-P

Parse and print structure information (for debugging).

-S

disable support for c++ strings

-1

substract 1 to operator[] index (for compatibility with tolua5)

-L file

run lua file (with dofile()) before doing anything

-D

disable automatic exporting of destructors for classes that have constructors (for compatibility with tolua5)

-W

disable warnings for unsupported features (for compatibility with tolua5)

-C

disable cleanup of included lua code (for easier debugging)

-E value[=value]

add extra values to the luastate

-t

export a list of types asociates with the C++ typeid name

-q

don't print warnings to the console

-h

Print usage information.

Should the input file be omitted, stdin is assumed; in that case, the package name must be explicitly set.

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was originally written by Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix@debian.org> and Jimmy Kaplowitz <jimmy@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It was expanded for tolua++5.1 by Cesare Tirabassi <norsetto@ubuntu.com> for the Ubuntu GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).